TTT - // AH: "Mr Khan didn;t kill people because he is a Muslim, he killed them because he was a psychopath.
The two are actually mutually exclusive, although when you read the endless threads on here, it's difficult to keep that in mind." - rubbish, he may well be a more exuberant and enthusiastic devotee than many but he believes he is slaying the infidel in line with the wishes of Allah. //
Whatever the reasons offered by the psychopath for his killing - be it this individual claiming it was 'Allah's will', or Peter Sutcliffe claiming it was 'God's voice' - the simple inescapable fact remains - murdering a complete stranger is the action of a psychopath.
The reason is not the issue - that is simply something for the individual to hang his behaviour on because, as i have pointed out many times, that's human nature, ensuring that we can think the best of ourselves.
It means he can look in the mirror and say "I'm doing God's / Allah's work ..." which makes him feel superior and self-righteous, rather than stating the truth which is "I want to kill complete strangers because I am a deeply disturbed and damaged human being with a possibly incurable psychosis governing my behaviour."
It's not Islam that makes extremists kill people, it's psychological damage, Islam is simply a convenient peg to hang it on for the perpetrators, and those who want to blame things on a nice simple aspect of another culture that they fear because they don't understand it.